Combined wallet and purse



2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR. Samuel Pick/{y BY SMQWW A TTORNEY March 11, 1.947. s, PLOTZKY COMBINED WALLET AND PURSE Filed June 14, 1944 March 11, 1947. s. PLOTZKY 'COMBINED WALLET AND PURSE 2 sheeis sheet 2 Filed June 14, 1944 INVENTOR. Samuel P101213 in, Ar-roR/wiv Patented Mar. 11, 1947 UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE COMBINED WALLET AND PURSE Samuel Plotzky, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application June 14, 1944, Serial No. 540,226

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a wallet.

More specifically, the invention proposes the construction of a wallet characterized by having a zipper coin pocket, 2. billfold on one side thereof and another fold on the opposite side thereof having two compartments for receiving cards, licenses and other papers, each of the folds having snap fasteners for "holding them closed.

It is further proposed to provide a wallet as aforesaid in which only the zipper coin pocket and billfold are provided.

A further object is to provide either of the aforesaid wallets constructed in a new manner providing simple construction and greater strength and wearability.

A further object is to provide a wallet of either of the aforesaid types in which the coin pocket has two end walls and is closed by a slide fastener extending along two sides of the coin pocket at right angles to each other.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. l is a perspective view of a wallet constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the wallet taken from the other side, with the folds and coin pocket open.

Fig. 3 is a front view of one side of the wallet showing the fold for cards or the like open.

Fig. 4 is a front View of the other side of the wallet showing the billfold open.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the wallet in another position, with the billfold unsnapped.

Fig. 6 is a view showing the greater part of the different sheets of material from which the wallet is formed laid side by side.

Fig. '7 is a section on the line ll of Fig. 5.

Fig. 8 is a view showing one end wall of the coin pocket before it is secured in the wallet.

Fig. 9 is a perspective view similar to Fig. 1 showing a wallet constructed in accordance with a modification of this invention.

Fig. 10 is a View showing the elements of Fig. 6 in assembled form.

The wallet, according to this invention, comprises a center coin pocket ll! having two end walls or gussets II and closed by a zipper [2 extending along the length of the pocket and '2 Claims. (Cl. fill-35) down one side thereof over the adjacent end wall, the zipper thus having two portions at right angles to each other. On one side of the coin pocket is a billfold l3 having two compartments M and I5 for receiving bills, checks -or the like. At the other side of the coin pocket is a fold it having two compartments H and 8 for receiving identification cards, licenses and other papers, compartments Il and is having transparent windows I9 and 2?) respectively. The billfold is held closed by a snap fastener 2! and the other fold is held closed by a snap fastener 22.

The construction of the wallet is unique. Most of the sheets of material from which the wallet is formed are shown in Fig. 6 laid out side by side in the fashion in which they are disposed in the finished wallet. Starting at the right side of Fig. 6, the first sheet 23 forms the frame for the two windows of the fold it, sheet 23 having two openings 24 and 25 and a slot 26 therebetween. Sheet 23 may be of leather. The two parts of snap fastener 22 are secured to the top and bottom of sheet 23. Windows I 9 and 29, which are sheets of Celluloid or transparent plastic, come next and in the wallet are glued to the sheet 23 over the openings thereof.

A sheet of cloth 2? extending the full length of sheet 23 for lining the two compartments of the card fold, comes next. Thus it will be seen that sheet 23 serves for both compartments of the card fold, the slot 26 forming the opening into both compartments, and both compartments are lined by a single sheet of material.

After the sheet 2 come two sheets of leather 28 and 29, each bent U-shaped and each opening outwardly so that their inner U-bend ends are adjacent each other in line with the slot 26. Sheet 28 forms an outer surface of the wallet, one portion 23' forming the back of the flap for the card fold and the other portion 28" forming part of the back for the bill fold. The sheet 29 forms the inside of the coin pocket. The end walls H, a gusset sheet from which they are formed being shown in Fig. 8, will be secured to the side edges of the sheet 29 to form the ends of the coin pocket and the slide fastener l2 will be secured to the inturned outer edges and to one pair of inturned side edges.

In the closed wallet the billfold does not extend the full height of the wallet, as is clearly shown in Fig. 1. Therefore a short sheet of leather as is provided adjacent the sheet 29. Next come the sheets of material that form the two compartments of the bill fold. First comes a narrow sheet of leather 3| having one edge even with the inner edge of sheet 30 and extending therefrom to form the end of the billfold. Then come alternate sheets of cloth and leather 32 to 31 respectively, the relative widths of these sheets being well shown in Fig. 7. The snap fastener 2! has two parts, one of which is in sheet 3| and the other portion of which is in sheet 31, these fastener parts extending through sheets 32, 34 and 36.

Some of the sheets extend around the edges of other sheets to bind them and are secured thereto by sewing. For instance, sheet 28 extends around the edges of the adjacent sheets 23 and 21 and is sewn thereto as at 28a. The same is true of sheets 39 and 3!. The portion of sheet 23 adjacent the coin pocket also extends around the the billiold and this is bound by two separate nar-.

Fig. 7 and the outer edges of end walls II are turned over to bind them as is shown in Fig. 8.

An important feature of the present invention, over and above the features set forth in the foregoing description, is that the coin pocket is closed by a zipper than runs along the longitudinal edge and one of the edges at right angles thereto, thereby covering an end wall. This provides the simplest and most economical possible manner of closing the coin pocket against any possible loss, because when the wallet is placed in a pocket with the closed side up, coins cannot possibly be lost out of the coin pocket, as the side and bottom of thepocket will positively be closed by'the zipper. only by the end wall and not by the zipper. If

the coin pocket were completely closed by the zipper a longer slide fastener would be em-.

ployed, unnecessarily adding materially to the cost of the wallet. If only the longitudinal edge of the coin pocket was closed by a zipper, then coins might be lost out of the end that was disposed at the bottom end of the wallet when the parts of the wallet of Fig. 9 corresponding to similar parts of the wallet of Fig. 1 are indicated by like reference characters with an accent added and no further description thereof is deemed necessary.

l-Iaving thus described my invention, what I The top is then closed- 4 claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

l. A wallet comprising a sheet of material folded to form a coin receptacle presenting opposite sides and a bottom, an outer sheet attached at its midportion to the bottom of said coin receptacle'and presenting free opposite ends, a card pocket mem ber attached to one side of said coin receptacle and to a side of one of said free ends and having a central opening for card withdrawal from two sides at its center fold, a billfold member secured at its mid-portion to the opposite side of said coin receptacle from said card pocket member and having one end secured to the end of said outer sheet opposite the end thereof to which said card pocket member is attached, and the other unattached end of said billfold member constituting a closure flap for the bill fold.

2. A wallet comprising a sheet of material folded to form a coin receptacle presenting opposite sides and a bottom, an outer sheet attached at its mid-portion to the bottom of said coin receptacle and presenting free opposite ends, a card pocket member attached to one side of said coin receptacle and to a side of one of said free ends and having a central opening for card withdrawal from two sides at its center fold, a bill fold member secured at its mid-portion to the opposite side of said coin receptacle from. said card pocket member and having one end secured to the end of said outer sheet opposite the end thereof to which said card pocket member is attached, the otherunattaahed end of said bill fold member constituting a closure flap for the bill fold, the end of the outer sheet to which the card pocket member is attached constituting a closure flap -for the card pocket and means for detachably holding said closure flaps closed.

SAMUEL PLO'IZKY.

REFERENCE S CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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